That's not what should scare you- Well, maybe the fake news part- That's just Donald Trump being Donald Trump. It's that while we've been busy watching this unfold, the Republicans in congress have been effectively staging a coup. They have voted on legislation which:

There's two things about this that should terrify any American. FIrst is that they are using Trump's antics as a screen to stage their coup. Second, is that they're staging a literal fucking coup, and how do people not see this? They are literally rewriting the rules to seize power from lawful officials who oppose them by bypassing them completely- That is pretty much the definition of a coup.